Standing on this exact spot, Maj. General John Sedgewick dismissed warnings from his staff to keep his head down. He was looking at the confederates line on the edge of the woods in the far distance, across the field. "They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!" he replied, just before a .55 caliber bullet hit him below the eye and exited out the back of his head. He was the highest ranking Union officer to die in combat.